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Originally Posted by Jay Random
That is nowhere near a record. Game 1 averaged 5.2 million viewers on NBC and another 3.2 million in Canada. I don't have the figures handy for overseas viewers, and perhaps they are not publicly available yet, but obviously that figure is not zero. The numbers you cite for Twitch are worldwide and thus not directly comparable.
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It was a market record for Vegas.[1]
The most watched hockey game I could find was Canada vs US gold medal 2010. It had 27.6 million US viewers and 16.6 million Canadian, peaking at 34.8 US and 26.5 Canadian, for a total of 61.3 million [2]. As I mentioned before, the LoL finals last year peaked at 80 million [3]. They're both international events, and sure we don't have viewership numbers for hockey outside of North America, but do you really think those add up to another 20 million, or that there's any other hockey game out there that had 30% more viewers than the Olympic gold?
However, I don't think renny was trying to make a point about peak viewership, but rather the day to day numbers. He mentioned that there were 1.6 million viewers on twitch at the time of his posting. To give better perspective, in 16/17 CBC's Hockey Night in Canada averaged 1.63 million [4]. You can qualify that all you want (international english speaking gamers vs canadian only), but it still gives a good idea just how big spectator gaming is.
[1]
https://www.nhl.com/news/stanley-cup...ds/c-298834348
[2]
https://www.nhl.com/news/olympic-fin...years/c-519476
[3]
https://www.lolesports.com/en_US/art...by-the-numbers
[4]
http://awfulannouncing.com/nhl/2016-...se-canada.html